What to Do When the Car Keeps Skidding While Driving?

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Here are the methods to handle vehicle skidding: 1. First, firmly hold the steering wheel and reduce the throttle as necessary; 2. Quickly determine the nature of the skid, such as whether it is front-wheel skidding or rear-wheel skidding; whether it is caused by poor road conditions or improper operations like braking or steering. 3. Avoid panic and do not blindly steer based solely on intuition. The following are the causes of skidding: 1. Slippery roads, oil spills, or ice, etc.; their adhesion coefficient decreases and becomes asymmetrical, and the wheel load and road adhesion also decrease, causing the wheels to skid with slight lateral force; 2. Imbalanced resistance on the four wheels during braking; such as unequal braking force on the left and right wheels, unequal adhesion coefficients on each wheel, or a load center of gravity leaning to one side, causing "deviation" and easily leading to wheel skidding; 3. If actions are too sudden or excessive, the wheels may "lock and drag," and the rear wheels generally lock before the front wheels, also easily causing wheel skidding; 4. Improper steering operations; such as high speed, sudden steering, improper use of brakes during fast turns, or excessively high vehicle center of gravity (overloaded), which increases the inertial centrifugal force and also easily leads to wheel skidding.